Word: lindberghism
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Carpenter's fellow astronaut John Glenn failed to finish at Ohio's Muskingum College. In the same flight pattern was Charles Lindbergh, who quit the University of Wisconsin after two years to learn flying. In fact, a list of famous dropouts could well begin with John F. Kennedy, who dropped out of Princeton in 1935 before he crashed through at Harvard (cum laude) in 1940-along with Jacqueline Kennedy, who deserted Vassar before eventually graduating from George Washington University...
...condescension and a touch of envy. Dr. Soichiro Yokota, director of the city's Atomic Bomb Hospital, sniffs that Hiroshima "is better at propaganda than we are," adding with a smile: "It's also true that Nagasaki is like the man who flew the Atlantic after Lindbergh. Who ever heard...
...raucous cry of Texas Guinan's "Hello Sucker!" or the gallused might of Clarence Darrow at the Scopes trial, or the wild, flappering chorus lines of Broadway would ever depict the tumultuous '20s half so well as the one memorable moment when bareheaded Charles Lindbergh, an unbelievably young man who challenged the skies without a huge backing apparatus of machines and men. returned to his own land to be led to the people in triumph by top-hatted Grover Wrhalen...
Continuing this heartening trend of lean prose and effective dialogue, Anne Lindbergh focuses on incest in her short sketch about a brother and sister parting at an air terminal. September is a modest attempt that leaves one hoping for something more ambitious from Miss Lindbergh in the future...
...Million-Dollar Rembrandt" for$2,300,000 - last week provided some even more provocative insightsinto the values of U.S. collectors. Where a penciled score by FredericChopin went for $40, a set of letters from John Glenn to an auto dealer fetched $425 and a collection of Charles Lindbergh memorabilia brought $3,500. Sharpest reflection of the spirit of the age, however, was theprice commanded by some correspondence of Sigmund Freud...